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The social outcomes of finance

jeudi 30 mars 2023 à 04:32

On many measures of how people live, including life expectancy, the US is not exemplary, and it is because it imposes poverty on more people, and worse, than other developed countries.

To truly make America great again, tax the rich and lift everyone out of poverty.

Prejudice against disprivileged groups "weathers them" and causes them to die younger.

Today's inflation, banking, interest rates

jeudi 30 mars 2023 à 04:32

*Why We (Still) Need a Federal Reserve for the People — Not [for] Wall Street.*

Source of PFAs in wastewater: TP

jeudi 30 mars 2023 à 04:32

Toilet paper contains PFAs, and since sewage treatment does not break it down, it gets into waterways and sewage sludge.

I live near the East Palestine chemical spill. Officials who say we’re safe are lying

mercredi 29 mars 2023 à 20:47

*I live near the East Palestine chemical spill. Officials who say we’re safe are lying.*

Demonstrating Our Commitment to Anti-Racism Through Programming and Events

mercredi 29 mars 2023 à 20:47

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology

states in its home page that it is an academic scientific society that aims to advance a field of science.

However, that has changed. The organization has taken up anti-racism

so intensely that campaigning against racism is its primary purpose and research is secondary.

It is proper for any organization to try to avoid racism in its activities. It is proper for any organization for research about human beings to try to study a variety of groups of humans, because not all humans are alike. In particular, not all societies are alike, and in any one society people with different roles may be systematically different.

However, the SPSP seems to have decided that every research project is supposed to campaign against racism, and research which doesn't do that is not worth publishing.

That is going too far, because it means that the ostensible purpose of the organization is now of minor importance.

I could support an organization whose sole purpose is to campaign against racism — depending on what methods it uses to do so. But we should not convert a scientific organization into a political campaign.